Myspace is everywhere. It's in newspapers, and on tv, and in adds all over the internet...myspace has even hit CNN. The media is going on some "paint myspace bad" rampage that is starting to get a little overboard. Don't get me wrong...i'm not saying that myspace is full of innocent people. I think that we all know there are people out there in the world who would love to hurt as many people as possible.
I have a myspace. I know the dangers. I know that pretty much anyone in the WORLD can see me myspace. But I also know that it's important to protect myself. There are certain things that you just don't put out there about yourself. And yes, if you do, there is a huge chance that some sexual predator will come after you. But that doesn't make myspace bad.
Instead of tainting the face of myspace with all these horrible news reports, I think that we need to teach the kids using them how to protect themselves. Just like mothers and fathers tell their daughters not to walk down the street in the middle of New York City at night looking like a hoochie, parents need to tell their kids what not to put on there myspaces.
All this media coverage of how bad myspace is is not helping the situation...it is onlly making kids hide the fact that they have myspaces from their parents, pushing them farther and farther away...
I don't know, I'm not an expert, but I think we need to find another way to deal with this. Any thoughts or comments? What do you think about the media coverage of myspace or about myspace in general???
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Simply don't do anything stupid or that you will regret!
Yes, Myspace is everywhere now a days, but there are events where myspace helps police find sexual preditors. i saw on the news once where these teen age boys made a fake myspace for a friend who was broken hearted. an older man started talking to her and the friends decided to tell the man to meet with "her" at a certain park. they didnt expect him to show up and when he did they call police.that fake myspace help police capture the man who thought he was talking to a teen age girl.
im not saying that we shouldnt protect ourselves. if people want to be your buddy you can always deny them and not put everything about yourself on myspace. if people want to talk, chat, or meet with you , you can always say no.
Yes, Myspace is everywhere now a days, but there are events where myspace helps police find sexual preditors. i saw on the news once where these teen age boys made a fake myspace for a friend who was broken hearted. an older man started talking to her and the friends decided to tell the man to meet with "her" at a certain park. they didnt expect him to show up and when he did they call police.that fake myspace help police capture the man who thought he was talking to a teen age girl.
im not saying that we shouldnt protect ourselves. if people want to be your buddy you can always deny them and not put everything about yourself on myspace. if people want to talk, chat, or meet with you , you can always say no.
Yeah I posted about MySpace too. It is just taking over. But I don't think it's that bad and I have one. And I agree: kids are still gonna sign up but be more careful to hide it.
I agree with you completly...I, for example, have only people I actually know on my friends list. I don't think the all the media coverage is negative. As you said, police are solving crimes through myspace. I just think that there is too much negativity about it and that we should encourage people to be safer instead of bombarding them with facts about how bad it is.
Yes i must admit I have to agree with you. Just yesterday a group of dancers came to perform at my school and they were advertising themselves on myspace. Its a bit sad how many people are really addicted to myspace. I do have a myspace my self and i'm amazed when I hear people say that its ruining their life. But indeed myspace seems to be the "it" website and the media is emphasizing on it just a little too much!
I don't personally have an account on Myspace, but my girlfriend does. She uses it to keep in touch with her friends, family and to advertise her business. Yes, she's 21 years old, and knows how to protect herself... and God, she loves to respond to all the letters to the editor in our local paper, and put up a fight when people put myspace down... that's just the way she is. She's not in love with the site, and only visits it a few times a week... but there are so many idiots out there that don't know what they're doing. However, people can blame myspace because it's a bunch of young adults & kids... it's easier for the "grown ups" in society to say that the kids are doing bad things than it is to point fingers at each other for opening phishing emails or sending their credit card numbers to fradulant companies. It's easier for young people to protect themselves because we've grown up around computers... we've watched scams and viruses evolve... we've been through chat room meeting stories, and many of us know people that have succumb to online predators of one type or another.
It's just as easy for a self-loathing, depressed woman in her thirties to fall for an online predator as it is for a thirteen year old girl... in fact if a thirteen year old girl is meeting people online, she knows what she's doing... she knows that she's being irresponsible and taking a risk. That thirty year old thinks she's finding comfort.